Some good thoughts.

Add Nick Drake (died age 26) and Elliot Smith (died age 34) to the 'suicide rock' club.

Buddy Holly is my pick behind Sam Cooke. As you said, so great so young and we really didn't get to see what heights he'd reached. The NY Apartment tapes are a must hear though.

Agree that Hendrix may have already peaked but... what a peak! He may have gone away from rock gone more into a strictly blues performer.

No mention of early jazz deaths:
Bessie Smith - died age 43, car crash
Billie Holiday - age 44
Bix Beiderbecke - age 28
Charlie Parker - died at 34
Charlie Christian - died age 25 from TB
Django - died 43
Glenn Miller - plane crash at age 40
James Booker - age 43 - in New Orleans Charity

John Coltrane - age 40 - liver cancer

Scott Joplin - 49

George Gershwin - died age 39 of a brain tumor - again, at his height

This is why I discussed rock only but those are some notables from the world of music...

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Posted by pheroy

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Posted on 2/21/23 at 2:49 pm to HodsonTiger13

In rock, Jimi for me b/c he was working on a project with Miles Davis that was in the formative stages. Miles went on to make some amazing jazz/funk/rock fusion in the first half of the 70s, with Pete Cosey doing the Hendrix role at first.

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John Coltrane is my other big one. He was one of the few true searchers in music, never standing still with his style and playing. He was a late bloomer in really just getting started with finding himself at 30, and at 40 was still continually changing and adapting his music.

Mozart is an all time great one to have done what he did by 35.

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